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    Friday News You Can Use-Cheap Businesses You can Start

    It’s Friday already and time for news you can use. Worried about inflation, this article has some great advice- https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/dont-let-inflation-ruin-your-fun-how-to-save-on-restaurants-gas-and-gadgets/ I always like to see articles about ways to save money and here’s one from Good Housekeeping- https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/money/a43217787/how-to-save-money/ And as always, being budget smart means both saving and making money and The Penny Hoarder has some ideas for starting cheap small business. You’re sure to find something you can do- https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/make-money/start-a-business/cheap-small-business-ideas/ Have a fun weekend and a money saving week.

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    Friday News You Can Use-$5 Meals

    It’s Friday and the last Friday of February. I hope you had a wonderful week and found money saving bargains. Based on your feedback, (and I’ve had lots of e-mails me asking for articles about saving money at the grocery store, so here’s what I came up with this week. Budgeting Tips from The Penny Hoarder https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/budgeting/budgeting-tips/ Fight High Grocery Prices  And from another one of my favorite money related sites, The Dollar Stretcher. You can always count on them for excellent articles and ideas so go check them out- Tried-and-True Tools for Fighting High Grocery Prices (thedollarstretcher.com)  $5 Meals And I found this YouTube Channel-Julia Pacheco, who has lots…

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    News You Can Use-Money Saving Appliances

    Has the first full week of February flown by or what? I almost forget that it’s Friday. Here are some money saving articles and vlogs I found this week- One of my favorite sites for all things money is Wisebread. This article features doable steps you can put into action- 16 Small Steps You Can Take Now to Improve Your Finances (wisebread.com) Another one of my favorites The Penny Hoarder with more fun money saving tips How to Save Money: 25 Ways to Put Away More Every Month (thepennyhoarder.com) And finally, I stumbled upon this YouTube channel called Under the Median who vloged about saving money appliances. How to Save…

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    Friday News You Can Use-Frugal Money Savers

    We’re over half way through the first month of the year. How was your week? Here are three more links to articles or videos I thought worth checking out, but first, I added a couple of cooking tips and my review of the cookbook Budget Bytes over at Budget Smart Girl’s cooking site, www.cookinggrubhub.com And now to the links- I’m a fan of the Penny Hoarder, in fact, I’ve been reading it for years. Here’s one of my favorites and it’s about 12 things to buy before prices go up https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/save-money/supply-chain-shortages/ Another one of my favorite money sites is Wisebread and they had 16 steps to improve your finances https://www.wisebread.com/16-small-steps-you-can-take-now-to-improve-your-finances…

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    Web Site Shout Out-The Penny Hoarder

          Here’s a new feature I thought I’d start on Budget Smart Girl. A shout out to sites, people, products, whatever  I think you should check out for their great content or ideas. My first shout out is to The Penny Hoarder. How did I hear about this site? Someone named the penny hoarder became one of my followers, I followed them back thinking they were simply someone who was watching their pennies. I was wrong, wrong, wrong. It wasn’t until a few months ago that someone told me about the great site called The Penny Hoarder that I decided to check it out. Wow, I was impressed and…

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